Mentioned I was half-mad a few entries ago. Guess I should amend my statement. I'm moderately mad. Or, rather, moderately disordered. At least according to this: Personality Disorder Test I'm moderately schizotypal, obsessive-compulsive, borderline, and avoidant. According to this test, I am this:

What revolution are You?
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Je ne suis pas! Je proteste! Comment est-ce que je puis être la Révolution Française quand je préfère énormément Voltaire á Rousseau?? I just looked up what today would be in the French Republican (Revolutionary) calendar converter (there's a spiffy Mac version of it here). And it happens today to be a Fête day, no less. La Fête du Travail (3ème comp.), An CCX. Festival of Work. (Labour Day). Actually, looking at the calendar, it seems we're in a Revolutionary Calendar Fête week right now ..... Tomorrow's Opinion Festival Day apparently. La Fête de l'Opinion (4ème comp.), An CCX. Maybe tomorrow if I'm being more moderately Obsessive-Compulsive than moderately Avoidant, I'll opine on something ...... Or maybe I won't.

"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
--Voltaire

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From Reuters, Wed Aug 21, 1:50 PM ET:

French mayor bans residents from dying LE LAVANDOU, France (Reuters) - The mayor of a French Mediterranean town, faced with a cemetery "full to bursting", has banned local residents from dying until he can find somewhere else to bury them. Gil Bernardi, mayor of Le Lavandou on the coast 25 km (15 miles) west of Saint Tropez, introduced the ban after a court rejected his plans to build a cemetery in a tranquil setting by the sea. Bernardi said most locals had obeyed the edict so far, but he was desperately trying to find a resting place for a homeless man who had recently passed away in the town. "Initially, the decree has been remarkably well followed," the mayor said. Bernardi has appealed against the ruling preventing the seaside cemetery being built, saying it would be the best final resting place for his townsfolk. "What people want here, because it's a local tradition, is their own little personal plot of land, their burial spot, not an impersonal pigeonhole," he said.

I can hear Laszlo from the other room screaming at the TV. There's this commercial that's apparently been making him insane lately. I hear him yell: "You can't degrease 'muck'! You degrease grime -- and then you're left with muck." He says that this is how the two are actually defined: muck is not greasy. Grime is. So, he yells at the commercial about it. It's good to have a hobby.